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Commit f9e7a5fa authored by David Howells's avatar David Howells Committed by Paolo Abeni
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crypto: af_alg: Pin pages rather than ref'ing if appropriate


Convert AF_ALG to use iov_iter_extract_pages() instead of
iov_iter_get_pages().  This will pin pages or leave them unaltered rather
than getting a ref on them as appropriate to the iterator.

The pages need to be pinned for DIO-read rather than having refs taken on
them to prevent VM copy-on-write from malfunctioning during a concurrent
fork() (the result of the I/O would otherwise end up only visible to the
child process and not the parent).

Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: default avatarHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
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